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Rita Dove Quotes
I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
Rita Dove

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Poet Quotes
Category:
American Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 28, 1952
Nationality:
American
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Related Authors:
Carl Sandburg
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russell Lowell
Robert Frost
T. S. Eliot
Walt Whitman
Bryant H. McGill

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